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English
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Now in a revised and updated 6th edition, the groundbreaking, research-based approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other challenging behaviors, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the field. What's an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration--crying, screaming, swearing, kicking, hitting, biting, spitting, destroying property, and worse....
2) The yearling
Author
Publisher
C. Scribner's sons
Pub. Date
1940
Physical Desc
3 p.l., 428 p. illus. 22 cm.
Language
English
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"The Pulitzer prize novel on which M-G-M based its motion picture"A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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"When American journalist Pamela Druckerman had a baby in Paris, she didn't aspire to become a "French parent." But she noticed that French children slept through the night by two or three months old. They ate braised leeks. They played by themselves while their parents sipped coffee. And yet French kids were still boisterous, curious, and creative. Why? How? With a notebook stashed in her diaper bag, Druckerman set out to investigate--and wound up...
6) Owen
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Series
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English
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Owen's parents try to get him to give up his favorite blanket before he starts school, but when their efforts fail, they come up with a solution that makes everyone happy.
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Series
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
133 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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English
Description
In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
10) Pete's a pizza
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Series
Publisher
HarperFestival
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) col. ill. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Pete feels miserable because rain makes it impossible to play ball outdoors, his father finds a fun indoor game to play with his son.
11) Hold tight
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Language
English
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Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become spying, overprotective parents. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant and aloof lately, and after the recent suicide of his classmate, Spencer Hill, they can't help but worry. They install a spy program on Adam's computer and within days they are jolted by a strange message to their son from an unknown correspondent: "Just stay quiet and all safe." Meanwhile, browsing through...
12) City of the mind
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Publisher
A. Deutsch
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
220 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Story of architect Matthew Holland picking up his life after his divorce, loving his daughter, and falling in love with Sarah in present day London, England.
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Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1982
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
303 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life, but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell ...
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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 8
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English
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There is much happening on Zebra Drive and Tlokweng Road. Mma Ramotswe is experiencing staffing difficulties. First Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni asks to be put in charge of a case involving an errant husband. But can a man investigate such matters as successfully as the number one lady detective can? Then she has a minor falling-out with her assistant, Mma Makutsi, who decides to leave the agency, taking the 97 percent she received on her typing final from...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
For over thirty-five years, parents have turned to How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk for its respectful and effective solutions to the unending challenges of raising children. Now, in response to growing demand, Adele's daughter, Joanna Faber, along with Julie King, tailor How to Talk's powerful communication skills to children ages two to seven. Faber and King, each a parenting expert in her own right, share their wisdom...
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Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (9 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sharing nothing in common except their 16-year-old daughter, divorced parents John and Irene reconnect in the wake of a devastating tragedy and discover things about each other that they had not revealed during their marriage.
18) Belong to me
Author
Series
Cornelia Brown novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperAudio
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Cornelia Brown willingly gives up her urban life to move with her husband, Teo, to the suburbs, where she struggles to form friendships with her judgmental neighbor and a kindred soul who helps Cornelia overcome the loneliness that seems to be consuming her.
19) The bird saviors
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Publisher
Unbridled Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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When a dust storm engulfs her Colorado town and pink snow blankets the streets, a heartbreaking decision faces Ruby Cole, a girl who counts birds: She must abandon her baby or give in to her father, whom she nicknames Lord God, and marry a man more than twice her age who already has two wives. She chooses to run, which sets in motion an interlocking series of actions and reactions, upending the lives of an equestrian police officer, pawnshop riffraff,...
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 225 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lenore Skenazy called down a firestorm of controversy when she wrote a newspaper column about letting her nine-year-old ride alone on the New York City subway. In this plainspoken take on modern parenting, Skenazy offers a commonsense approach to letting kids be kids.
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